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...husky, grim-faced man who haunted the mountains on an endless search, traveling sometimes afoot, sometimes by motorcycle, stopping on a ridge now and then to scan the silent expanses of forest and rock with his binoculars. Many a California outdoorsman came to know him by his nickname, "the Phantom Rider." Fewer knew his real name, Clinton Hester, and his mission: he was searching...
During his two-day tour of Iowa, Symington pounded hard on a handy theme: the farmer and his problems. His own twelve-point farm program, he told a Democratic luncheon in Waterloo, is better and less costly than Ezra Benson's "phantom farm program." In Davenport, Symington turned his attention to the need for water resources: "In the dictionary of Republicanism, as proven by their plans and their budgets, the fate of a river is to flow wastefully to the sea. Democrats, however, believe that every great river offers a challenge to invest in a better America...
...campaign strategy of Adlai Stevenson, phantom candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination (TIME, Oct. 5), was sadly reaffirmed by another Democratic hopeful, who went to Stevenson to ask for his endorsement and anonymously told about the outcome last week. Adlai replied that 1) he would endorse no one, at least not until after the presidential primaries; 2) he will not withdraw his own name from speculation, but 3) he will make no overt effort to obtain the Democratic nomination. In Cheyenne, Wyo., Democratic Pacemaker John Kennedy tut-tutted such coy stratagems. Said he: "The primaries are going to be decisive...
...most important auto show. So eager were Frenchmen to see the new cars that Paris hotels were booked solid weeks in advance. What they saw were cars ranging from Italy's tiny $1,070 Vespa Deluxe to Rolls-Royce's most expensive model, the $26,000 Phantom V, designed for "important guests and executives," with a TV set, figured French walnut woodwork and air conditioning that adjusts automatically. There was also a multifuel engine, designed for trucks and military vehicles, that Britain's Rootes Group claims will run on "anything from lighter fuel to Scotch whisky...
...told, it lent Jasper $21.2 million of its currently estimated $40 million in assets, some $10.3 million without any security. To get around a law requiring that building societies list separately every mortgage over $14,000, Jasper and the Building Society set up a string of more than 451 phantom companies with such freewheeling names as Snowfleck, Pantic, and Vagid, lent them each something under...